Why Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport won the 2019 Goldsmiths Prize
Lucy Ellmann has been awarded this year’s Goldsmiths Prize, in association with the New Statesman, for her 1,000-page novel Ducks,…
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Isabel Waidner on their Goldsmiths-shortlisted novel We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff, marginalised writers, and the Isle of Wight.
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Mark Haddon: “I like people to like me. Is that a weakness?”
Mark Haddon on his Goldsmiths-shortlisted novel The Porpoise, the beauty of Ordnance Survey maps, and why Shakespeare’s Pericles is “a pretty dreadful…
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Lucy Ellmann: “You’re on your own with this book, no nursemaid”
Lucy Ellmann on her Goldsmiths Prize-winning novel Ducks, Newburyport, the female experience and scaring “the shit out of” her readers.
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Misunderstanding Margaret Thatcher
How Margaret Thatcher consolidated her power – not thanks to the Falklands War, but because of an opposition that underestimated…
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Benjamin Myers’s The Offing: a sensual pleasure
The prose in The Offing is baroque and proudly old-fashioned, the antithesis of Sally Rooney-style sparseness.
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Prince’s The Beautiful Ones: filmic dreams of a life.
The pop icon’s unfinished autobiography offers glimpses of his childlike imagination.
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Burning Down the Haus: how punk changed Berlin
Tim Mohr’s history of East German punk is full of vivid characters and raging teenagers.
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